Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.

The first rule of democracy is to distrust all leaders who begin to believe their own publicity.

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.

Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.